Who remembers school sock hops?

[Wicked Blue]

Back in the 60s, when we had dances in school gymnasiums, we weren't allowed to wear shoes because they would scratch the polished wood floors.

There was usually a room or an area set aside to leave your footwear. Being a perennial wallflower, I was usually one of the people minding the shoe room.

Sock hops started in the 40's and were popular in the '50s. My kids' elementary school had a sock hop every couple of years in the '90s.

[niyad]

1. Never went to one, but I remember them.

[Ocelot II]

2. Only vaguely; I usually didn't go because I knew I'd be a wallflower - or worse:

A wall lichen who never moved off the wall.

[LakeArenal]

3. Yep. We called them Boy/Girl dances but in gym in socks.

We also had clases with dances. I remember learning the minuet and an Irish jig.

[Wicked Blue]

4. We learned square dancing in elementary and junior high school nt

[LakeArenal]

5. Ah yes that too.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Went to a lot of them tontry out the newest dance fad.

The twist, the monkey, the baked potato, the swim, or the stroll

[Wicked Blue]

7. The Swim!

And line dancing.

[rsdsharp]

10. My junior high had a long room off of the cafeteria.

It was also part of Teen Tavern, but it had a “hi-fi” and a student counsel member would endlessly recycle the handful of 45s at lunch so kids could dance. Because of the long, narrow nature of the room, kids lined up to dance; boys on one side, girls on the other.

They recently closed that junior (later middle) school, but two or three generations of people from my home town would always line up to dance, where ever they were.

[Wicked Blue]

11. That sounds wonderful

Wish we'd had that

[rsdsharp]

12. It wasn't so great as a shy 7th grade student counsel member

charged with playing the records. I knew nothing about music, and trying to satisfy the requests (demands) was not fun. Oddly, I later worked in radio as a Top 40 jock, music director and program director.

[global1]

8. Went To An All Boys Catholic High School ...

The sock hops were in the gym. The priests were our chaperones. They would circulate the gym watching for couples dancing too close - separate the couple by saying "make room for God".

[Wicked Blue]

9. Our chaperones in public school did the same

only without God